iOS 18.1 and Apple Intelligence

[Eric]

I just upgraded my 15 Pro Max to this and opted into Apple Intelligence and have no idea what to expect but will report back if/when I get accepted.

 

[Cmaier]

I am horrified by Image Playgrounds (in 15.2).

This is me:

 

[fooferdoggie]

work about the same as on the 16. It's better at dictation for sure. sometimes Siri is better sometimes not.

 

[Cmaier]

work about the same as on the 16. It's better at dictation for sure. sometimes Siri is better sometimes not.

The only substantive change in Siri so far is that it does better at recognizing if you stutter, “um,” or change your question mid-speech.

That, and the look of the thing, tap-to-type, etc. Even in 18.2, the only change so far is it can, in theory, ask ChatGPT. “Who’s going to win the baseball game tonight” triggered it to ask me “do you want me to ask ChatGPT for an answer?” When I said yess, it gave me a dumb answer.

 

[Eric]

Some of the auto-reply stuff is actually pretty cool but haven't had much of a chance to play with anything else.

 

[Cmaier]

Some of the auto-reply stuff is actually pretty cool but haven't had much of a chance to play with anything else.

I’ve used it a bunch of times to respond to my teenage daughter, when I’m not sure what to say but I know if I don’t say something I’ll get yelled at.

 

[Jimmyjames]

I’m seeing a lot of negativity about the new AI features. So far I’ve only tried the summarise stuff and thought it did a pretty good job. I seen people say “it removes subtleties”. Yes, that’s what summarising does most of the time. If it maintained all of the nuance it’d just be the original text.

 

[Joelist]

The Writing Tools all appear to work as advertised, albeit I'm not crazy about the writing style employed. I can't get it to operate in Messages.

 

[Herdfan]

I’ve used it a bunch of times to respond to my teenage daughter, when I’m not sure what to say but I know if I don’t say something I’ll get yelled at.

If only that worked in reverse.

 

[Jimmyjames]

I am horrified by Image Playgrounds (in 15.2).

This is me:

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Hey everyone. I found Craig Federeghi’s brother.

 

[Alli]

I hate the summarize feature. I don’t want everything summarized. I want to read every word.

 

[fooferdoggie]

I hate the summarize feature. I don’t want everything summarized. I want to read every word.

you can turn it off. I only find it useful for alerts I get a lot of and don't need to see each one separately. it takes a while to find everything. I have had 2 weeks to play with it.

 

[Alli]

I have had 2 weeks to play with it.

I’ve been playing with it since the beta. I just hate it and it’s everywhere.

 

[Eric]

I hate the summarize feature. I don’t want everything summarized. I want to read every word.

I think it speaks to a bigger societal issue where we must comprehend everything within a few seconds, rather than take a little time to simply read and take it in. All I can say is I'm glad to have grown up reading books and taking life at a slower pace, we are becoming systematically dumber as we let smart computing do everything for us.

 

[Nycturne]

I am horrified by Image Playgrounds (in 15.2).

This is me:

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I didn't know you were Rand Miller.

 

[Herdfan]

I think it speaks to a bigger societal issue where we must comprehend everything within a few seconds, rather than take a little time to simply read and take it in. All I can say is I'm glad to have grown up reading books and taking life at a slower pace, we are becoming systematically dumber as we let smart computing do everything for us.

We grew up being able to make change in our heads. It was just something we did. Now every POS system tells you how much change to give back.

An example: There is a local coffee shop here that makes the best cinnamon rolls. Went in and ordered one and my total was like $4.03. I handed the cashier a $5 and she entered it. But before she had a chance to start counting my change back, I remembered I had some pennies, so I said "hang on I have the 3 cents". She told me she had already entered my payment and couldn't change it. Seriously? WTF?

Same thing happens if something is $15.xx and you give them $21 so you get a $5 back. Literally have had cashiers hand me back my $1 and told me I paid too much.

 

[Edd]

I hate the summarize feature. I don’t want everything summarized. I want to read every word.

I’ve been using it and keep wondering: Is summarizing messages so advanced that it took AI to accomplish it? Doesn’t seem like a heavy lift.

 

[Nycturne]

I’ve been using it and keep wondering: Is summarizing messages so advanced that it took AI to accomplish it? Doesn’t seem like a heavy lift.

Even with brains built to develop/process language, it takes us years to develop enough of an understanding to perform a summary of what we read. We get taught how to do it either by family or school.

What seems simple to us, because we have chunks of the brain devoted to helping us wade through it, isn’t necessarily simple to make an algorithm out of. Summarization is probably one of the things language models do well, and it can be done on the device with a small language models (you don’t need a GPT-class model). But it’s also possibly one of the least interesting use cases as it saves us very little time when applied to text messages, versus if it can summarize a research paper or other long form body of text.

 

[dada_dave]

Apple has allegedly approached Foxconn and Lenovo to build AI servers based on Apple Silicon

To take advantage of Foxconn's knowledge of Nvidia-based machines.

www.tomshardware.com

Apple getting serious about building out its own AI server farms

 

[rdrr]

Apple has allegedly approached Foxconn and Lenovo to build AI servers based on Apple Silicon

To take advantage of Foxconn's knowledge of Nvidia-based machines.

www.tomshardware.com

Apple getting serious about building out its own AI server farms

If I remember correctly Lenovo got its hand caught in the cookie jar with a BIOS backdoor. Since it was/is a Chinese company, the DoD banned them from any part of its operation. It was a while ago, and maybe they have proven themselves?